October 26, 2020

26 Octubre 2020

I argued that positive test rates are a good measure of how serious the governors are in trying to bring the pandemic under control.

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Yet Another Diatribe on Patent Monopolies and How They Are Not Talked About in Polite Company

By Dean BakerDean Baker

October 26, 2020

26 Octubre 2020

I don’t know why reporters, economists, and other policy types don’t talk about the abuses and waste created by patent and copyright monopolies. I just know that they don’t.

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The Impact of the Pandemic on Superstar Cities

By Dean BakerDean Baker

October 23, 2020

23 Octubre 2020

It is still too early to make any definitive judgements, but as remote work becomes more accepted, it is hard to believe that many people will not take the opportunity to move to lower cost parts of the country.

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Government-Granted Patent Monopolies Gave Purdue Pharma Incentives to Push Opioids

By Dean BakerDean Baker

October 21, 2020

21 Octubre 2020

Maybe this is too obvious a point, but I don't see it mentioned in news coverage of the company's settlement.

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Washington Post Suffers from Which Way Is Up Problem: Repealing Section 230 is DEREGULATING Facebook

By Dean BakerDean Baker

October 17, 2020

17 Octubre 2020

The threat to remove Section 230 protections from FCC chair Ajit Pai is obviously an act of political intimidation directed at Facebook and Twitter.

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Waiting for a Vaccine and the Collaborative Research Alternative

By Dean BakerDean Baker

October 16, 2020

16 Octubre 2020

If the United States had pursued a route of open collaborative research, we would now be in a position to start mass producing China's leading vaccines and distributing them as soon as evidence of their effectiveness was sufficiently established.

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Educating the Washington Post on Section 230

By Dean BakerDean Baker

October 13, 2020

13 Octubre 2020

Section 230 effectively allows Facebook to profit from being a conduit of libelous material.

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The Washington Post Has Never Heard of the International Monetary Fund

By Dean BakerDean Baker

October 12, 2020

12 Octubre 2020

The editorial never once mentions the proposal before the International Monetary Fund to substantially increase the special drawing rights available to developing countries.

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Waiting for a Vaccine: Killing for Inequality

By Dean BakerDean Baker

October 11, 2020

11 Octubre 2020

It is hard to understand how, not just mainstream Democrats, but even progressive leaders ... were not pushing for an open research response to the pandemic. This almost certainly would have given us a vaccine more quickly.

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